Christian Vegetarian Association Presents:
Take
Heart!Vegetarians Were Right All Along

Earlier this month, a study published in the American Medical
Association’s Archives of Internal Medicine, indicated that implanting
stents to stretch open cholesterol-clogged arteries in people with
stable coronary artery disease was useless or worse. Seemingly, the
most effective way to prevent and reverse this clogging is diet. Dr.
William Roberts, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Cardiology
said, “For the build-up of plaque in our arteries to cease, it appears
that the serum total cholesterol needs to be lowered to the 150 area.
In other words the serum total cholesterol must be lowered to that of
the average pure vegetarian. Because relatively few persons are
willing to abide by the vegetarian lifestyle, lipid-lowering drugs are
required in most to reach the 150 level.”

A plant-based diet has been found to prevent and reverse most
of the chronic diseases that plague our society. Still, most
people are willing to subject themselves to the side-effects of drugs
instead of changing their diet. We must remember that being good
stewards of our bodies, temples of the Holy Spirit, means to treat our
bodies with respect and reverence. A plant-based diet helps us do
exactly that.